In a new interview with
Inside Games,
Senran Kagura
producer and Honey∞Parade Games president Kenichiro Takaki discussed the current status of the August 2017-announced PlayStation 4 title Senran Kagura 7EVEN.

“It seems the original idea we had imagined [for
Senran Kagura 7EVEN] would be impossible to release,” Takaki said. “So we’re redoing, or rather reconsidering, everything about the game.”

This was part of a response to a question from the media regarding Takaki’s thoughts on Sony Interactive Entertainment’s strengthening regulations on the presentation of sexual content. Takaki said that this trend of regulations is not limited to PlayStation, but will spread around the world to affect every platform and genre. With this trend arriving sooner than expected, Takaki expressed his concern. “Right now, I’m really worried about what to do.”

Asked if the increasing strictness of sexual depiction on PlayStation 4 might result in the series shifting mainly to PC, Takaki responded, “It is not impossible. Considering the genre and its niche nature, it would be tough to make the game only for PC. The PC has a lot of realistic shooters, so hmm… If we can do that we will, but a lot is uncertain right now.”

I am glad this guy is being sincere about toning down the series' fanservice formula to fit with the new regulations unlike some gullible compulsive liar who is working on a certain fighting game. I am going to miss the old Senran Kagura and I hope this guy finds a way to make the series appealing through new censorship laws.

I wish I could still say PC is still a viable and profitable option, but even Steam is clamping down (though the SK games have to be affected, to my knowledge). A shame there's no Japanese Steam equivalent, or even a Steam competitor that isn't as puritanical.

All that needs to happen is to have all the various devs and publishers in both japan and the west do a giant collaboration where they simultaneously threaten to cancel dozens of future playstation games. Niche or not the sheer volume of titles sony would lose would add up to being too much money for sony to ignore, forcing them to change. Sadly though, these companies don't have the balls to stand up for themselves and take the required steps.

How is it a handful of devs? What do you consider a handful? From articles I have come accross I have seen at least 20 distinct devs who were affected by this.

Edit: And to add to that, that is based of course of those who made public statements of some kind whether showing the PS censored version or how Sony would complicate development of their next or current project, but this certainly is affecting more due to the nature of many games of these kinds whether JRPG, VN, hack and slash, etc.

I don't know what Sony wants to achieve with this new policy except to loose customers in the long run. From a business standpoint they should do anything to win customers and not pissing them off even if it's a minority in comparison.We have the ESRB, PEGI, USK etc, let them do their job!It would be interesting if they are stupid enough to affect bigger titles as a new GTA or Cyberpunk/Witcher etc. but maybe they are and we won't see it... It's pretty easy to suppress minorities...

They are in high school and for the most part 16-18 years old. Their clothes in context of the game it’s fan service in context of gameplay more clothes you lose the more damage you take and harder to turn the tide of battle. You can transform the girls into a special form which makes them stronger to counter this. The games are basically about girls training to be shinobi in high school and face each other essentially. People like them due to the combat system, the aesthetic and art, and the fan service.

Solution: Switch & PC. Not sure where the "every platform and genre" thing came from when Switch is allowing these games just fine. I mean, they allowed Reflexions to release unaltered (even in the localization) and that *entire* game is the mode Sony had them remove from Re:Newal.

The only one who said anything about "worldwide trend" was Inside Gamer themselves. There's no transcript from Takaki saying that. Either he's an idiot for making an excuse or IG are idiots for jumping the gun.

problem is most of Senran Kagura gameplay would still be fine, I think he just has no Clue what he is aloud to do, the 1st 3 games on 3ds were T rated games, IM didn't even come till vita version, So if we get a middle ground between 3ds games and 1st vita somewhat of a +, it sux but times are changing just look at MK11 for example, Song of Memories, Catherine Full Body Demo so far , Death End Request all upcoming games seemly got through, it also might be that srry to say SK has a stigma like with DOA when it comes to mainstream gaming, another thing to look at this game wasn't even in full production yet most of marvelous was working on God Eater 3 w rest on daemon x machina, while senran team w smaller staff made peach ball and new stuff for New Wave which is the companies $$ maker